Three centuries of change in the Peace-Athabasca Delta, Canada

Climatic Change

Volumn 93, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 485-515

  Timoney, Kevin P ^a  

^a Treeline Ecological Research   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; OIL SANDS; SNOW;

ALBERTA; ALBERTA , CANADA; BIOTIC COMPOSITIONS; CLIMATIC CHANGES; COLD WINTERS; FLOOD FREQUENCIES; HISTORICAL DATUM; LOW WATERS; MAJOR EVENTS; PEACE-ATHABASCA DELTAS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHANGES; TAR SANDS; TWENTIETH CENTURIES; WETLAND ECOSYSTEMS;

RIVERS;

DELTA; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EPIDEMIC; FLOOD; RECHARGE; SNOW; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WILDFIRE;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; PEACE-ATHABASCA DELTA;

EID: 62949151250     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-008-9536-4     Document Type: Article

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